From one event, a series of insignificant steps resulted in another event.

simple past tense and past participle of lead a cat-and-dog life

simple past tense and past participle of lead someone up the garden path

A shelf on which articles may be laid; also, that which resembles such a shelf in form or use, as a projecting ridge or part, or a molding or edge in joinery.

(uncommon) To cause to have, or to develop, a ledge (during mining, canal construction, building, etc).

(slang) A lege; a legend.

(Canada, slang) A provincial or territorial legislature building. / (Canada, slang) A provincial or territorial legislative assembly.

(obsolete) Language; speech.

(obsolete) A man; a person.

(chiefly US, journalism) The introductory paragraph or paragraphs of a newspaper, or a news or other type of article; the lead or lead-in.